Sometimes Halloween decorations cause unnecessary police reports, but now a family’s Christmas decoration has really freaked out a neighbor. The Heerlein family of Austin, Texas decided to enter their annual neighborhood Christmas decorating challenge, and put up a display paying homage to the scene from “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” where Clark Griswold hangs from the roof of his house while trying to put up Christmas lights.
Weird Christmas lights decorations in Austin https://t.co/qRx0Hvm8JH pic.twitter.com/fNmFTjXRhe
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They got a dummy and dressed it up before hanging it from their roof, and placing a ladder that looked like it was tipping over underneath. A day later, the family’s Nest Cam video caught footage of a passerby who saw the display and started desperately trying to save the “man” he thought was hanging off the roof.